... locals enjoying themselves. We even queued to get into one of the restaurants which appeared to be very popular with locals and we had a filling fish meal with a jug of sangria at a reasonable price.

On our final day in Malaga we visited the Castillo de Gibralfaro which sits above Malaga and has great views of the harbour and the west of the city. The strenuous walk up to the castle seemed to have deterred some visitors as it was fairly quiet when we ...

... in incase they wanted to keep me ............ We then walked up to the Church of St Nicholas this was well worth the steep hike through the Albaicin to marvel at the view of the Alhambra and the Generalife ( the magnificent gardens in the Alhambra ) with the Sierra Nevada backdrop. Bill Clinton recently re-visited this spot whilst on a trip to Spain as apparently he had been there once in his student days and had never forgotten ...

... a couple of places whose names currently escape me (though Lorca was one) but were unable to locate a suitable place for a break mainly due to a lack of parking. But the buildings were somewhat different to those seen previously. Many were single story and with strange roofing made of half-pipes laid as a form of tiling. The buildings were quite old though not as if they'd survived since the middle of last millennium but the style was different. We also noticed more head ...

This morning we left our corner of beach paradise and drove a few hours to Granada, Spain. It's a beautiful city with the notable UNESCO site of Alhambra. Alhambra is a very large park and gardens with the restored palace of the Moore sultans. The ...